Robotics Books

Book SynopsisThe 9-volume set LNAI 14267-14275 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2023, which took place in Hangzhou, China, during July 5–7, 2023.The 413 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 630 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Human-Centric Technologies for Seamless Human-Robot Collaboration; Multimodal Collaborative Perception and Fusion; Intelligent Robot Perception in Unknown Environments; Vision-Based Human Robot Interaction and Application.Part II: Vision-Based Human Robot Interaction and Application; Reliable AI on Machine Human Reactions; Wearable Sensors and Robots; Wearable Robots for Assistance, Augmentation and Rehabilitation of Human Movements; Perception and Manipulation of Dexterous Hand for Humanoid Robot.Part III: Perception and Manipulation of Dexterous Hand for Humanoid Robot; Medical Imaging for Biomedical Robotics; Advanced Underwater Robot Technologies; Innovative Design and Performance Evaluation of Robot Mechanisms; Evaluation of Wearable Robots for Assistance and Rehabilitation; 3D Printing Soft Robots.Part IV: 3D Printing Soft Robots; Dielectric Elastomer Actuators for Soft Robotics; Human-like Locomotion and Manipulation; Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning for Smart Robots.Part V: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning for Smart Robots; Robotic Tactile Sensation, Perception, and Applications; Advanced Sensing and Control Technology for Human-Robot Interaction; Knowledge-Based Robot Decision-Making and Manipulation; Design and Control of Legged Robots.Part VI: Design and Control of Legged Robots; Robots in Tunnelling and Underground Space; Robotic Machining of Complex Components; Clinically Oriented Design in Robotic Surgery and Rehabilitation; Visual and Visual-Tactile Perception for Robotics.Part VII: Visual and Visual-Tactile Perception for Robotics; Perception, Interaction, and Control of Wearable Robots; Marine Robotics and Applications; Multi-Robot Systems for Real World Applications; Physical and Neurological Human-Robot Interaction.Part VIII: Physical and Neurological Human-Robot Interaction; Advanced Motion Control Technologies for Mobile Robots; Intelligent Inspection Robotics; Robotics in Sustainable Manufacturing for Carbon Neutrality; Innovative Design and Performance Evaluation of Robot Mechanisms.Part IX: Innovative Design and Performance Evaluation of Robot Mechanisms; Cutting-Edge Research in Robotics.Table of ContentsHuman-centric Technologies for Seamless Human-robot Collaboration.- Method for Identifying Knee Joint Stiffness During Human Standing.- Motion Control and Simulation Analysis of a manipulator Based on Computed Torque Control Method.- Design and Realization of a Multi-DoF Robotic Head for Affective Humanoid Facial Expression Imitation.- Adversarial Attacks on Skeleton-based Sign Language Recognition.- Adaptive Goal-Biased Bi-RRT for Online Path Planning of Robotic Manipulators.- A Novel 3-DOF Spherical Hybrid Mechanism for Wrist Movement: Design, Kinematics, and Simulation.- Dimensional Synthesis of a Novel Redundantly Actuated Parallel Manipulator.- A Novel Hyper-Redundant Manipulator Dynamic Identification Method Based on Whale Optimization and Nonlinear Friction Model.- Study on Shared Compliance Control of Teleoperated Abdominal Ultrasonic Robot.- Construction of Control System on Kinematic Redundant Hybrid Parallel Mechanism for Micro-assembly.- Multimodal Collaborative Perception and Fusion.- Influence of Contact Characteristics on Pressure Sensing of IPMC Sensors.- Optimization-Based Motion Planning Method for a Robot Manipulator under the Conditions of Confined Space and Heavy Load.- Vision-based Categorical Object Pose Estimation and Manipulation.- Animal-Like Eye Vision Assisted Locomotion of a Quadruped Based on Reinforcement Learning.- Abnormal Emotion Recognition Based on Audio-Visual Modality Fusion.- Powerful Encoding and Decoding Computation of Reservoir Computing.- Bidirectional Delay Estimation of Motor Control Systems at Different Muscle Contraction Levels.- Growing Memory Network with Random Weight 3DCNN for Continuous Human Action Recognition.- Sleep-dependent memory replay enables brain-like robustness in neural networks.- Improving Motor Imagery Brain-Computer Interface Per-Formance through Data Screening.- The Impact of Three-Week Passive Robotic Hand Therapy on Stroke Patients.- A Six-Dof Parallel Robot-Assisted Dispensing Platform with Visual Servoing and Force Sensing for Accurate Needle Positioning and Mass Control.- Post-Stroke Motor Function Assessment Based on Brain-Muscle Coupling Analysis.- Factors Affecting the Perception Performance of Biomimetic Tactile Sensing System.- Intelligent Robot Perception in Unknown Environments.- Air-Ground Robots’ Cooperation-Based Mountain Glaciers Thickness Continuous Detection: Systems and Applications.- A Modified Artificial Potential Field Method Based on Subgoal Points for Mobile Robot.- A Modular Tensegrity Mobile Robot with Multi-Locomotion Modes.- Quantum Genetic Algorithm with Fuzzy Control Based on Clustering Analysis.- Design and Research of a Snake-Like Robot Based on Orthogonal Joint and Wheel Modules.- Multi-Sensor Tightly Coupled SLAM Algorithm Based on Feature Planes in Indoor Scenes.- Intelligent Perception Solution for Construction Machinery Based on Binocular Stereo Vision.- Design and Experimental Study of an Intelligent Soft Crawling Robot for Environmental Interactions.- Vision based flame detection using compressed domain motion prediction and multi-feature fusion.- Vision-LiDAR-Inertial Localization and Mapping Dataset of a Mining Cave.- Gesture recognition based on LightViT network against sEMG electrode shift.- Hybrid Scheme for Efficient Deformable Image Registration.- A Trunk Map Construction Method for Long-Term Localization and Navigation for Orchard Robots.- Relational Alignment and Distance Optimization for Cross-modality Person Re-Identification.- RGB-D Camera Based Map Building and Path Planning of Snake Robot.- Map Smoothing Method for Map Distortion with Localization Error.- A Novel Line Approximation Approach for State Updates of Grid Maps.- A Flexible and Highly Sensitive Ultrasonic Transducer for Accurate Three-Dimensional Positioning.- Grasp Compliant Control using Adaptive Admittance Control Methods for Flexible Objects.- Vision-Based Human Robot Interaction and Application.- Research on an Embedded System of Cotton Field Patrol Robot based on AI Depth Camera.- Hard Disk Posture Recognition and Grasping Based on Depth Vision.- Design of a Visual Guidance Robotic Assembly System for Flexible Satellite Equipment Unit Assembly.- Full Resolution Repetition Counting.- Human-robot interactive operating system for underwater manipulators based on hand gesture recognition.- Registration of Structured Light Camera Point Cloud Data with CT Images.- Automatic loading and unloading system with workpiece identification based on YOLOv5.

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Book SynopsisThe 9-volume set LNAI 14267-14275 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2023, which took place in Hangzhou, China, during July 5–7, 2023.The 413 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 630 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Human-Centric Technologies for Seamless Human-Robot Collaboration; Multimodal Collaborative Perception and Fusion; Intelligent Robot Perception in Unknown Environments; Vision-Based Human Robot Interaction and Application.Part II: Vision-Based Human Robot Interaction and Application; Reliable AI on Machine Human Reactions; Wearable Sensors and Robots; Wearable Robots for Assistance, Augmentation and Rehabilitation of Human Movements; Perception and Manipulation of Dexterous Hand for Humanoid Robot.Part III: Perception and Manipulation of Dexterous Hand for Humanoid Robot; Medical Imaging for Biomedical Robotics; Advanced Underwater Robot Technologies; Innovative Design and Performance Evaluation of Robot Mechanisms; Evaluation of Wearable Robots for Assistance and Rehabilitation; 3D Printing Soft Robots.Part IV: 3D Printing Soft Robots; Dielectric Elastomer Actuators for Soft Robotics; Human-like Locomotion and Manipulation; Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning for Smart Robots.Part V: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning for Smart Robots; Robotic Tactile Sensation, Perception, and Applications; Advanced Sensing and Control Technology for Human-Robot Interaction; Knowledge-Based Robot Decision-Making and Manipulation; Design and Control of Legged Robots.Part VI: Design and Control of Legged Robots; Robots in Tunnelling and Underground Space; Robotic Machining of Complex Components; Clinically Oriented Design in Robotic Surgery and Rehabilitation; Visual and Visual-Tactile Perception for Robotics.Part VII: Visual and Visual-Tactile Perception for Robotics; Perception, Interaction, and Control of Wearable Robots; Marine Robotics and Applications; Multi-Robot Systems for Real World Applications; Physical and Neurological Human-Robot Interaction.Part VIII: Physical and Neurological Human-Robot Interaction; Advanced Motion Control Technologies for Mobile Robots; Intelligent Inspection Robotics; Robotics in Sustainable Manufacturing for Carbon Neutrality; Innovative Design and Performance Evaluation of Robot Mechanisms.Part IX: Innovative Design and Performance Evaluation of Robot Mechanisms; Cutting-Edge Research in Robotics.Table of Contents​Innovative Design and Performance Evaluation of Robot Mechanisms - Ⅱ.- Design and Analysis of a Novel Ring Truss Deployable Antenna Mechanism.- Model-based Performance Enhancement for Compound Twisted and Coiled Actuators.- Lightweight design method of stacker column structure based on multi-parameter sensitivity analysis.- Optimum Design of 3-UPS/S Parallel Humanoid Wrist Joint.- Kinematic Analysis of Overrunning on a Swing Arm Tracked Mobile Chassis.- Design and Implementation of a Modular Self-reconfigurable Spherical Robot Connected by Magnetic Force.- Graph Synthesis of Generalized Parallel Mechanisms with Coupling Sub-Chains.- Analysis of Mechanism Elastodynamic Performance in Automatic Excavating Process of Excavating Robot.- Measurement and Analysis of End Jitter of Six-axis Industrial Robots.- Description of configuration transformation matrix of reconfigurable mechanism and automatic retrieval and recognition of motion mode.- Design of a voice coil motor-driven multi-DOF parallel micropositioning stage.- Structural Design of a Multi mode Variable Coupling Multi axis Parallel Mobile Robot.- Design and Kinematic Analysis of DNA Nanomachines.- Design and analysis of a new type of solar panel.- Cutting-edge Research in Robotics.- Real-Time Monitoring System of Spray-Painting Robot Based on Five-Dimension Digital Twin Model.- A Methodology for Optimization Design of Parallel Manipulators with Similar Stiffness Performance Design.- Collaborative Robot-Oriented Joint Real-time Control Based on Heterogeneous Embedded Platform.- A Novel Sensitivity Analysis Method for Geometric Errors of a Parallel Spindle Head.- A Novel Prognostic Method for Wear of Sliding Bearing based on SFENN.- Accurate Interpolation Algorithm Based on Fir Filters with Local Dynamic Adjustment.- Investigation of Soft Acoustic Waveguide Dispersion for Wearable Strain Sensing in Human Motion Monitoring.- Design and Optimization of Compliant Rotational Hinge Based on Curved Beam.- A Visual-Inertial Fusion Mapping and Localization System Using AprilTag in GNSS-Denied Scenes .- An Orientation Measurement Method for Industry Robot Based on Laser Tracker.- Programming the Motion of Nanofiber Mat Actuator Through an Area Selective Epoxy Coating Method.- Design of a Multi-Robot Digital Twin System with Bidirectional Motion Synchronization Capabilities.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of selected papers presented at the Fourth Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2023), organized by CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India, under the technical sponsorship of the Soft Computing Research Society, India, during September 45, 2023. It includes novel and innovative work from experts, practitioners, scientists, and decision-makers from academia and industry. It covers topics such as the Internet of Things, information security, embedded systems, real-time systems, cloud computing, big data analysis, quantum computing, automation systems, bio-inspired intelligence, cognitive systems, cyber-physical systems, data analytics, data/web mining, data science, intelligence for security, intelligent decision-making systems, intelligent information processing, intelligent transportation, artificial intelligence for machine vision, imaging sensors technology, image segmentation, convolutional neural network, image/video classification, soft comput

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Book SynopsisChapters include: Robotics Economics; Robotics Glossary Terms and Definitions; Robotics Kinematics; 2D-Analytical Evaluation of the Robot’s Gripper Tool Center Point (TCP) Acceleration Using Calculus; and Calculations of the Motor Power Ratings Necessary to Power the Joints of a Robot’s Manipulator.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1:  Introduction to UAV Swarms and Smart Cities.- Chapter 2:  Fundamentals of UAV Swarms.- Chapter 3: Smart Cities: Concepts and Technologies.- Chapter 4: Cloud Computing for UAV Swarms.- Chapter 5: Cybersecurity in UAV Swarm Operations.- Chapter 6: Machine Learning Applications in UAV Swarms.- Chapter 7: Surveillance and Monitoring in Smart Cities.- Chapter 8: Urban Planning and Infrastructure Management.- Chapter 9: Public Perception and Acceptance.- Chapter 10: Infrastructure Resilience and Disaster Management.- Chapter 11: International Perspectives on UAV Swarms.- Chapter 12: Real-world Deployments of UAV Swarms.- Chapter 13: Integration of IoT Devices with UAV Swarms.- Chapter 14: Smart Infrastructure for IoT and UAV Swarms.- Chapter 15: Economic Analysis of IoT and UAV Swarm Integration.- Chapter 16: Edge Computing for UAV Swarm Operations.- Chapter 17: Blockchain Applications in UAV Swarm Security.- Chapter 18: 5G Integration for Enhanced UAV Swarm Connectivity.- Chapter 19: Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) for UAV Swarm Visualization.- Chapter 20: Innovations and Future Directions in UAV Swarm for Protecting Smart Cities.

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